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OPTIQ

A new approach to image quality and dose in minimally invasive interventions

ARTIS icono floor with OPTIQ

During a procedure, interventionalists have to see clearly – while keeping dose as low as possible. As your partner for minimally invasive interventions, we have made it our mission to further drive technology to empower you to tap your full potential. Following our tradition of innovation, we took an initiative to redefine the principles of automatic exposure control and rebuilt it from the ground up – resulting in our imaging solution OPTIQ. Based on big data, OPTIQ delivers constant image quality2 throughout a procedure, independent of angulation or patient size1, while also reducing dose5. Find out more about OPTIQ and how it supports you in expanding precision medicine.

Technology behind

OPTIQ - constant image quality in support of ALARA3 dose

With increasing patient attenuation, the conventional detector-dose-driven exposure control leads to a reduction of image quality – even in the average patient thickness range between 20 – 30 cm.
Our newly developed exposure control OPTIQ uses a contrast-based technique, supported by intelligent, self-adjusting algorithms. It automatically considers SID, collimation settings, grid status, and patient thickness – and finds and applies the best suitable combination of the 5 radiation exposure parameters and the detector dose as an additional variable. This new exposure control constantly aims to achieve the requested contrast-to-noise ratio at the lowest possible dose5.
The basis for this complex functionality is a vast database containing 300 million entries. With every image acquisition, the system checks up to 15,000 possible parameter combinations with the goal to select the most dose-efficient one for a specific imaging situation.

Graphic about imaging chain
Graphic about dose savings

Find out what your peers say about OPTIQ

Prof. Bernhard Meyer, MD, discusses the high image quality and dose saving potential on the ARTIS icono with OPTIQ

Hendrik Janssen, MD, talks about image quality improvement with OPTIQ.

Prof. René Chapot, MD, discusses high image quality at low dose.

Structure Scout – optimized visibility of details and devices

For interventional procedures, devices like guide wires, coils, and stents are indispensable. The market is constantly growing, with new devices emerging made from different materials – and each one needs to be clearly visible without an increase in dose.
Structure Scout automatically optimizes the visibility of different devices and materials, based on their individual dose absorption property. This material-specific imaging is based on preset values. As a result, the system automatically adapts its exposure control parameters to the material used.
Find out how much dose you can save with Structure Scout in clinical practice!2


    "Structure Scout offers us outstanding device visibility at impressively low radiation dose. This gives us great confidence even during the most challenging procedures in personalized vascular medicine and interventional oncology." 4
    Prof. Thomas J. Vogl, MD 
    Prof. Thomas J. Vogl, MD 
    Director of the Institute for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital Frankfurt, Germany 

    Clinical proof

    See for yourself: OPTIQ makes the difference

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    Neuro Interventions

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    Interventional Cardiology

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    Interventional Radiology

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    Clinical image that shows treatment with OPTIQ Roadmap

    Image courtesy: Prof. René Chapot, MD, Alfried Krupp Krankenhaus Essen, Germany

    OPTIQ Roadmap: Significant improvements of device contrast over vessel map

    “Impressive is the quality of the Fluoroscopy and the quality of the Roadmap. Increased image quality goes together with a reduction in doses.”4


    Prof. René Chapot, MD
    Head of the Department of Neuroradiology,
    Alfried Krupp Hospital, Essen, Germany


    Clinical image that shows treatment with OPTIQ Roadmap
    Without Scruture ScoutWithout Structure Scout
    With Structure ScoutWith Structure Scout
    Clinical image that shows stent treatment
    Clinical image that shows small vessels and tissue perfusion
    Clinical image that shows excellent visibility of tiny vessels with OPTIQ
    Clinical image that shows a TIPS procedure using a contrast-filled balloon over an iron wire without Structure ScoutWithout Structure Scout
    Clinical image that shows a TIPS procedure using a contrast-filled balloon over an iron wire with Structure ScoutWith Structure Scout
    Clinical image that shows fine structures and compensation for motion artifacts
    Clinical image that shows tiny vessels in the knee
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    Within physical limits

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    Dose reduction (based on phantom measurements) compared to conventional automatic exposure control - e.g., available with Artis Q, image quality is defined by contrast-to noise ratio

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    ALARA = As Low As Reasonably Achievable

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    The results and statements by Siemens Healthineers customers described herein were achieved in the customer's unique setting. Since there is no "typical" hospital and many variables exist (e.g. hospital size, case mix, level of IT adoption), there can be no guarantee that other customers will achieve the same results. (wenn Kunden zu Wort kommen) 

    Prof. Vogl receives financial support from Siemens Healthineers for collaborations.

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    Compared to other Artis systems with detector dose control
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    Within the possible exposure parameters and given ARTIS hardware configuration as well as status of SID, collimation and grid.
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